Blog Article - Amazonia: The bittersweet taste of chocolate

Would you like a cappuccino, or would you prefer a macchiato? It’s an ordinary question. But it’s unusual when it’s asked in a small village coffee shop in the middle of Ecuador’s Amazon region, far away from any tourist hotspots. During her research, our PhD student Léa Lamotte came across the “Western lifestyle” – in a place where people are looking for alternatives to rainforest destruction.

Read the whole article in the CDE Coffee Corner Blog!